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The FSFE justly drew the line at providing private information of supporters. How many other customers of Nexi simply handed over such data 'because audit'?

rasjani•1h ago

So this was not only about FSFE and payments for them but a general audit of their (Nexi's) customers ?

TavsiE9s•1h ago

That’s how I read the linked post as well, yes.

rcxdude•2m ago

It seems unlikely that the FSFE is the first customer they have asked for this information.

butokai•2h ago

As an Italian living in another EU country, I always thought that the amount of (broken) bureaucracy of Italy was not particularly worse. However this story comes after a couple more I heard this week, in a line of absurd practice possibly due to absurd regulations.

grigio•1h ago

Maybe now more F/OSS supporters will understand the need of Bitcoin/Monero

jasonvorhe•1h ago

Not unless they start questioning the Club of Rome induced climate scam.

eequah9L•1h ago

> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters.

I must be missing something, but why is there an expectation that clear text passwords would even be known?

littlecranky67•59m ago

Everytime people say bitcoin has no use case, I'd like to point them to cases like this.

sam_lowry_•57m ago

Reminds me of the famous "Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? [1]

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/293217/our-security-audito...

janpio•46m ago

So what did Nexi really want, and how did it get mangled so badly that it came out as "specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters"?

rcxdude•26s ago

It's entirely possible that is actually what they wanted (at least what the people in the company they were talking to wanted). I suspect that "we understood to mean" is language carefully designed to avoid a lawsuit.